But by the way, it would be really great if you create another script to switch from ntfs-3g back to standard ntfs on usb devices.

May be i am a little too scared, but ntfs-3g is still beta, and i like my data very mouch, so i just want to enable write access when i really need it.

July 30th, 2006

domino

Re: HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method)

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Originally Posted by Solid1986Snake

Thx givre,
youve done really great work here.

But by the way, it would be really great if you create another script to switch from ntfs-3g back to standard ntfs on usb devices.

May be i am a little too scared, but ntfs-3g is still beta, and i like my data very mouch, so i just want to enable write access when i really need it.

That's what the script "unmount_ntfs-3g" is for. Assuming you enabled the script, just right-click the usb device and click the "unmount_ntfs-3g" script from the script menu. That drive with ntfs-3g driver will unmount. Double clck on the drive in Nautilus and it mounts using the normal ntfs driver (without write).

GregaS, you may have mounted using the ntfs driver in fstab. That error message may indicate that it's alreay mounted before login. Post your fstab or mtab and post sudo fdisk -l.

visvak, go back to windows and scandisk/fisk all your ftfs partitions and reboot back to windows. restart properly and boot into Ubuntu and try to mount the ntfs partition. Also post your sudo fdisk -l after wards if still having trouble.

How are you mounting/unmounting the partitions? There is a known issue with mounting more than one partitions using the ntfs-3g driver. If you mount one, you have to manually mount them all. Likewise if you unmount one, you have to manually unmount them all. It's the ntfs-3g limitation.

In my case, i have 2 ntfs partitions both using ntfs-3g drivers and perams set in fstab. In order to unmount those partitions, I have to sudu unmount both of them because fstabs is own by root. Likewise, if I need to mount one of the partitions, I have to again use sudo mount all the partitions if it is using ntfs-3g drivers.

I believe givre noted that his mount script maybe be limited to external USB drives only.